{Spam?} [Tutor] Trying to post sensor readings to the web.

[Bob Gailer]

At 08:28 AM 3/9/2004, Bill Gillespie wrote:
>Hi Folks!
>
>I have a great, fun and interesting project - but I have no idea what I
>am doing!
>
>:)
>
>I'm trying to learn how to post some sensor data, to a web page, by
>running a python cgi program. The objective is that each time I request
>the web page, and run the cgi program, the page would display the
>current readings for the sensors I am trying to monitor via the web.
>
>I have the sensors data in the form of a log file, but I'm not sure how
>to pass those logged sensor variables, to the web page through the cgi
>program.
>
>The log file is called "sensor.txt" and the data in it looks like this:
>--------------------------------------------------------------------
>chan0=125, chan1=32, chan2=255, chan3=003, chan4=103, ...
>chan0=125, chan1=33, chan2=255, chan3=002, chan4=114, ...
>chan0=123, chan1=33, chan2=254, chan3=004, chan4=124, ...
>chan0=125, chan1=30, chan2=255, chan3=000, chan4=136, ...
>
>         for 24 channels total
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Here is what I have so far for the cgi program:
>
>All it can do at this point is generate a time stamp for the web page,
>and generate a simple 3 x 8 table. I'm working with python 2.3, running
>on a Mandrake 9.2, Linux machine.

Is your question "How do I open and parse a file?"?

>-------------------------------------------------------------------
>monitor_telemetry.py - a cgi program for posting data to a web page
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>#! /usr/bin/python
>
>import time
>
>timenow = time.ctime(time.time())
>
>print """Content-type: text/html
>
><title>Current Sensor Readings</title>
><BR>
><BR>
><BR>
><CENTER>
><H3>Sensor Readings - Data Page</H3>
><HR>
>
>
><HR>
>
><p>Current date and time</p>
><table border=3>
>"""
>
>for i in range(3):
>     print "<tr>"
>     for j in range(8):
>         print "<td>%d.%d</td>" % (i,j)
>     print "</tr>"
>
>## print the date and time
>print timenow
>print "<br><br><br>"
>
>
>print """
></table>
>
>
><HR>
>"""
>
>---------------------------------------------
>
>Thanks much for any help.
>
>Bill
>
>
>
>
>
>
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